Are You Prepared For Anna Faris's Dark Beauty Flick?

We were pumped to see that the hilarious Anna Faris was starring in Observe and Report. (The Seth-Rogan-as-a-schlubby-mall-security-guard movie in theaters today, not to be confused with January's Kevin-James-as-a-schlubby-mall-security-guard movie.) We were even more excited to hear that she was manning (womanning?) a mall makeup counter in the film. Would her Brandi be cinema's first powder-puff-wielding heroine?

Beauty counter girls are often portrayed as vain airheads, spraying unwanted perfume samples, and Brandi's no different. Her look—baby-blue eye shadow, copious cleavage, and Lee-Press-On nails—is played for laughs. (For the record, the makeup counter gals we know have much better style. And growing up with three older brothers, it took a stranger to teach me how to apply blush before my prom—so thank you Tiffany at the Clinique counter in the South Shore Plaza Macy's, you kept me from looking quite silly.) But for many women, Brandi's lack of style will not be the most disturbing part of this dark comedy, which draws heavily from Taxi Driver and actually goes to places even that thriller did not. Let's just say, it ain't all pretty.